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MADISON - State wildlife officials say gun deer hunters harvested about 93,000 bucks last year.
That's an 11 percent decline from the previous year.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the drop was steeper for antlerless deer.
The DNR says gun deer hunters registered 147,000 last year, down 40 percent from 2008.
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MADISON - The national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is urging Wisconsin lawmakers to hold a hearing on a bill that would toughen drunken driving penalties in the state.
The proposal would legalize sobriety checkpoints and make a first-offense drunken driving arrest a crime instead of just a traffic violation.
MADD President Laura Dean-Mooney asked the co-chairs of the Legislature's budget committee in a letter dated Tuesday to hold a hearing on the bill.
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RHINELANDER - Business and community leaders gathered in Rhinelander Tuesday for this month's Leadership Oneida County daylong seminar.
The day's topic? Local Industry.
Committee Member Mel Davidson set up today's tours.
The group visited five different industrial firms including: Superior Diesel, ABX, Oldenburg Group, Printpack and ending at Ponsse.
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RHINELANDER / SUGAR CAMP - If ice fishing is your thing, you've got some time before you need to put your auger away. But if you're an avid snowmobiler, you may be in for a rough ride.
Not long ago, the snowmobile trails looked like this. And now, they look like this...patches of standing water and mud...and don't forget the sun that's making it all possible.
Three Lakes Trails Officer Jeff Smith groomed the trails one week ago for the last time. "It's a short season as it is, it starts around Christmas time and this year it ended a little early. It'd be nice to go a couple more weeks into March."
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WAUWATOSA - Patients would get more information about how much it costs to receive treatment under a bill that has been signed into law.
Under the new law signed Tuesday by Gov. Jim Doyle, doctors, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, pharmacists and other health care providers will have to supply the median-billed charge for a service upon request.
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RHINELANDER - Oneida County is considering a new location for the Department on Aging.
Gary Baier, the Department on Aging Building Committee Chairman, says they're looking at the Northern Advantage Job Center in downtown Rhinelander.
Baier says Trig Solberg owns the Job Center building and told him Nicolet College and the state aren't expected to renew their leases next year.
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RHINELANDER - The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games may be over, but as Newswatch 12's James Fillmore reports that's not stopping three local athletes from following their Olympic dreams.
10-year-old Daleigh Neveaux loves figure skating and the Olympics.
She says, "I would love to be an Olympics athlete because I work hard, and if I work even harder I could push myself to be in the Olympics someday."
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